The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-11-02

is due and what is acknowledged and PAID,
is adverted to here ONLY to point ana en-
phasize THE RIGHT OF THE UNIVERSITY TO BE
cErvE AS IT'S DUE WHAT IT Is RECEIVING.
Could language be more explicitg Yet SELF
ing on other words and separating them
from their context, and seizing on another
sentence (of which presently, the Senator
undertakes to say that the article was NOT
'.oNLYr for that purpose, but for entirety
different purpose. While the sentence says
the allusion is made only to explain the
right of the University to HOLD ON TO the
recognition of 1880, and receive its fruits,
the Senator perverts it into threat TO
BREAK UP that settlement in the not remote
future. He takes the two sentences The
University is not AT PRESENT demanding
this amount of the State. There IS NO ISSUE
between the two;" and he construes 1t to
mean "but there WILL BE DEMAND, anu
there WILL BE AN ISSUE" and on that con
struction turns the whole justification OF
| his assault ON the act of 1880 in the hight OF
| a settlement What right had he to so con-
strue the sentences. The article was has
| torical: it was dealing with past events;
and what was meant was manifestly state
ment that the AMOUNT while not fully rec
ognized is no longer a matter of subslsting
demand; and that while there had been an
issue, there was no longer one.
The preceding paragraph gives none
such. 1t is there said that "the amount
NOW due the University is, in fact etc;
but. looking TO the context, and especially
the explicit statements of the next para
/ graph. it should have been clear to so dis
eliminating perception as that of the SEN
| ator that allusion was had only to the NOR
| AL aspect of a case whose LEGAL aspect had
been settled-a difference which should
have been very obvious to one who so free
ly invokes il in his own article. Then he
takes the concluding sentence, "Yet while
this is true, the University has not aban
doned the hope" etc; and construes that
, into threat that at some future day moi
REMOTE" the University will come forward
: with another DEMAND for larger sum. L
, was nothing of the sort. There is nothing
> | in it but what is patent on its face. thai
some day when the State is again happy
|. and rich, it will of its own free grace anC
> bounty, exercising that magnanimity TO
| which the Senator praises the Legislature o
| 1856. come to recognize the fact that i
drove a close bargain with the University
2 | in 1850, and will voluntarily further pro
: vide for what | regard as her most precious
! | possession. Had not good grounds TO
! | such hope? Witness the generosity of tn
q State to all other institutions of learning
; in her borders And when / place the pc
Rod in which 1 hope that that great goo'
: fortune shall come to pass, of the State
, recovery from the crushing losses of tn
late war ''in the future not REMorE; II
| Heavens name, is the Senator going to DIFF
fer with me about that? If so, then do
: love the State of Mississippi better than h
: | does.
: Messrs Editors, let the Importance of 1t
!. subject, serve to You and its readers, a
= my apology for the length of this letter.
!, Yours very truly,
EDWARD MAYES.